Freezer Burn: Egg Banking is a Growth Industry Jul 2007. Egg freezing could be a godsend for women who are facing cancer treatments or other medical procedures that could impair fertility … but a bigger market lurks: healthy women who delay childbearing or worry that they won’t meet the right partner in time and are seeking a bit of insurance to safeguard their fertility.

Leapin’ Lizards: Amylin Targets Diabetes and Obesity via Incretins Mar 2007. Large and lucrative markets could await the drug that causes significant weight loss, but developing a medication that is both safe and effective has stymied the largest of drug companies. Some new contenders are now grabbing for the brass ring by finding creative ways to make you think you are not hungry.

On the Trail of Prometheus Mar 2006 — Although bodily regeneration has existed in myth for millenia, only certain tissues will, in fact, regenerate. Over the last two decades, many companies have tried to transform regenerative ability into reality.

Targeted Nanoblobs Treat Cancer and Heart Disease Apr 2006 — Raquel Welch glamorized nanomedicine in the 1966 movie, Fantastic Voyage, based on the Isaac Asimov book about a miniaturized submarine’s journey through a human body. An underrated precursor was George S. Chapell’s 1930 travelogue, Through the Alimentary Canal with Gun and Camera.